Spring 2027

Product Design

Project-oriented interdisciplinary course covering product design from problem identification to detail design, emphasizing competitive, quality products.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.81 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=35 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply a structured design methodology to conceive and develop products that are not only feasible but viable and desirable

  • Integrate a range of low-fidelity prototyping methods and user testing into the design process, as a means of exploring and validating design concepts

  • Communicate to a diverse audience the ways in which proposed product attributes address user needs, through the use of sketches and storyboards

  • Situate the role of the engineer in the new product development process, and develop skills to collaborate effectively with peers from different disciplines (marketing, industrial design, human factors, etc.) who work together to bring new products to market

  • Develop advanced skills to collaborate effectively with peers from different disciplines (marketing, industrial design, human factors, etc.) who work together to bring new products to market

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Prerequisites

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Senior standing and declared in Biomed, Biological Sys, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Geological, Industrial, Mechanical or Nuclear Egr, Materials Sci & Egr, Egr Physics, Egr Mechanics, grad/professional standing or member of Egr Guest Students

  • Senior standing and declared in Biomed, Biological Sys, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Geological, Industrial, Mechanical or Nuclear Egr, Materials Sci & Egr, Egr Physics, Egr Mechanics, grad/professional standing or member of Egr Guest Students
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  • Senior standing and declared in Biomed, Biological Sys, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Geological, Industrial, Mechanical or Nuclear Egr, Materials Sci & Egr, Egr Physics, Egr Mechanics, grad/professional standing or member of Egr Guest Students

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.81 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=35 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Product development process from problem identification through detail design and evaluation
  • Idea generation and evaluation, visualization, and quality
  • Low-fidelity prototyping methods and user testing
  • Communication via sketches and storyboards

Skills

  • Applying structured design methodologies for product conception and development
  • Integrating low-fidelity prototyping and user testing to validate design concepts
  • Communicating product attributes using sketches and storyboards
  • Collaborating effectively with interdisciplinary peers in product development

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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